Wednesday, May 12, 2010

A is for Allah by Yusuf Islam


"A long time ago, way before my time, some babies were born into this world. Their parents looked at them and said, "Now, which school are we going to send you to?" The babies didn’t really know what to say...but somewhere, someone had an idea,

And so, Islamia School was born.

One thing our school taught was very important, in the old days they used to teach you that A is for Apple. In Islamia, we learnt something different, we were taught the name of the Creator of apples and everything else in this beautiful universe."


Children of Islamia School






Sunday, May 9, 2010

WORLDVIEW


WORLDVIEW is not merely the mind’s view of physical world of man’s historical, social, political and cultural involvement.

The WORLDVIEW of Islam is fundamentally of both dunya and akhirat (the visible and the invisible world).

The WORLDVIEW of Islam – the vision of reality and truth that appears before our mind’s eye revealing what existence is all about, for it is the whole existence in its totality that Islam is projecting.

WORLDVIEW does not change, if YES, the worldview changes from:



Adapted from “Prolegomena to the Metaphysics of Islam: An Exposition of the Fundamental Elements of the World View of Islam by Syed Naquib Al-Attas”



The ones who think Islam is conservative and out-dated, what you believe has narrowed your thinking and shrunk your worldview.